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History at Lucky Cheng's

The rumor has been floating for a few years, but by now you've heard the official news that, after nearly two decades, Lucky Cheng's...

VANISHING The High Line has just claimed another victim. Since the luxury park opened into the upper reaches of Chelsea, the existing long-...

A comment on this post reminded me of the prostitutes that used to roam the upper, western edge of the East Village. There's a reason T...

New York's great small places are not often included in the history records. They linger, or they vanish, leaving us to wonder about the...

A few people have asked about my story on the city's newsstands and their history, originally published in Forgotten New York , Septembe...

The vanished city comes back to us, now and then, in scenes from old movies. You don't expect it, then there it is. You squint at the sc...

In Brooklyn there's a block of Bergen Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, that wasn't there a year or so ago. The block itself was ...

I used to go for lunch at McSorley's, back when things were quieter. Then the crowds started growing, and I stopped. Now and then I go b...

I have seen the future of the bookstore, and it has been designed by Marc Jacobs. photo from Racked Since I first broke the news last year o...